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🏀 Future stars, future leaders. 🌟 Before hearing their names called on Draft Night, the top @NBADraft prospects hit the court with @NewEraCap & local youth at @TheNBPA ! From basketball skills and combine drills to injury prevention and off-court learning activities, it's a day focused on developing the next generation—on and off the hardwood. 💪

LENNY COOKE Born on April 29, 1982 in Atlantic City, New Jersey where he attended middle school. The family later moved to the Bushwick section of Brooklyn New York. Cooke's parents struggled to find employment, and the family lived in poor conditions. However he was fast developing into an extraordinary basketball player, which helped to smooth the jagged reality of the poverty that had engulfed him and his family. Cooke, had grown to be 6 ft 4 by the 8th grade, and entered Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn. He had difficulties in the classroom and failed the 9th grade. Transferring to La Salle Academy in Manhattan from 1999 to 2000 he repeated 9th grade. Finally Cooke was eligible to play as a sophomore and was an all-city selection, averaging 20 points and 11 rebounds a game, in his first season of organized basketball at the age of 16! His development went rapidly averagng 25 points and 10 rebounds during his junior year and remarkably was ranked higher than LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony as a high school baller in 2001. His skills expanded further as he averaged 31.5 points for the first eight games of his senior year. However, when he turned 19 in 2001, he was declared academically ineligible to play! Cooke's complicated basketball and life journey are not easy to follow. In the summer of 2000, Cooke earned Underclassmen MVP honors at the Adidas ABCD Camp and was 2nd leading scorer in the Rucker League in Harlem playing among professional players like Stephon Marbury, Ray Allen, Zach Randolph and Omar Cook. Cooke next appeared at Mott Adult High School in Flint, Michigan, working on his equivalency diploma, but confined to playing pickup games and tournaments. Still, at the end of the 2001–02 school year, Cooke had multiple options because of his elite basketball skills: North Carolina, Seton Hall, St. John's, Miami and Ohio State. A dozen NBA teams considered him and at least three guaranteed they would take him in the 1st round if he were available. He chose to skip college and declare eligibility for the 2002 NBA draft, ending his chances to play college basketball. Bad luck ensued when all 29 NBA teams passed on Cooke in both rounds of the draft. Cooke's complicated life and basketball career is the subject of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival documentary film "Lenny Cooke" by the Safdie Brothers.

Chris Paul reveals how he spent his first NBA money after having just $151 in his bank account “I had $151 in my bank account when I declared for the NBA Draft.” “My financial advisor wanted to send me $100,000.” “My parents said, ‘No, that’s too much.’” “So they sent me $25,000.” “I took my girlfriend, who’s now my wife, to the mall.” “I told her, ‘Buy whatever you want.’” “Then we went to TGI Fridays.” “That was the first time we paid with one check.” “It’s been one check ever since.” “The first thing I bought for myself was a BMW 750.” “To me, that was the nicest car in the world.”

Jaylen Brown says he used the NBA Players Association instead of hiring an agent for the NBA Draft because they're paid to help players “When I entered the draft, I didn't have an agent. I'm probably the highest picked selected ever that didn't enter with an agent. When I was evaluating, I went through the whole process and sat with a bunch of people, and what they was offering I ain't really need. It was kind of already slotted, so I leaned on the union a lot more” “A lot of the agents came and was like, ‘Yeah, we'll move you to L.A. We'll get you a trainer, put some money in your pocket,’ and I was like, ‘For what? Do I gotta give the money back?’ They was like, ‘Nah, but standard agent fee is 4%.’ I'm starting to do the math, and a house, car, and all that, whatever he was offering, is a lot less than what 4% would have been” “Long story short, the math wasn't mathing for me. I ended up being the third pick. I think because I came in like that, a lot of people, I think it was the agents, they tried to slander my name a little bit, put it in the media that he's too this, he's too that. Ended up backfiring. It all worked out in the end” “With the union, we pay dues. All the players in the NBA pay dues. We all pay like $10,000 out of our salary that goes to hiring lawyers, hiring staff, CEO, everything that you need to lead a company that works for us. So all of that is our resources that we all pay for, that we agree to. Once I learned that, I just started using it” “I'm talking about you can get private investigations done. They give referrals for financial advisors. All type of stuff. Foundation wise, health insurance, whatever you need. They have a liaison that's paid to make sure that you get it done. So I put it on their desk like, ‘I need you to get this done.’ And they do because that's their job”

Throwing it back to NBA Draft week 🌟🔙 🏀 @jrnba basketball clinic with off-court learning activities 🍎 Farmers market with free groceries and health resources 📚 Opening of renovated STEM Lab at the High School of Arts & Technology

“Preparing for the NBA is adjusting to basketball being your entire life, now.” Caleb Wilson’s lifelong dream is now reality. Watch his journey to the game’s biggest stage in Road to the NBA Draft presented by @newbalancehoops.